Welcome to www.zweikommasieben.ch
Hello!
Over the past few months, we have been working intensively on our new website. While it’s not exactly an archive, the site provides an overview of our work over the past 14 years (time really does fly…)—it brings together a selection of important pieces drawn from most previous issues of our print publication, offering a renewed entry point into zweikommasieben’s history.
zweikommasieben’s new website is not meant to be static or conserving, but rather in flux and ever-changing. It is designed in a way that hopefully makes serendipitous discoveries possible. Instead of proposing a single, predetermined path, the site invites multiple forms of navigation that can unfold intuitively. Take a look, see what strikes your interest and dive deeper, by reading, listening, and, if you want, changing course as often as you like.
We hope that this invitation , which might appear slightly overwhelming at first, allows for organically finding out about new artists, music, and sounds—an exploration detached from algorithmic recommendation principles and guided instead by our editorial point of view. The extensive lists on this website, which gather all artists and contributors who have been part of the publication in the past, are testament to a wide and eclectic output that’s not decided on this or that musical expression. This openness has always been central in approaching our subject matter. All music is valid to us, and we are more excited than ever to highlight the overlooked, the popular, the undercovered, and everything in-between.
Across time, surprising links and connections can emerge. By placing older texts next to more recent ones, the website invites a reconsideration of chronology. It’s an invitation to look at previous texts and contributions with fresh eyes and to form new associations between them, discovering through lines that might have been hidden before. Some articles date back more than ten years , which is mentioned whenever possible and indicated by referencing the issue it was published in. We encourage you to keep this context in mind while reading these pieces, as their temporal distance can add nuance rather than limit relevance.
Going forward, more texts will be added, either from past issues of zweikommasieben or specifically commissioned for this website. The editorial approach shall remain elastic and responsive—a space that evolves alongside the conversations, sounds, and artistic gestures that shape it.
The editors
P.S. A lot of work, most of it unpaid, went into bringing this website to life. If you like what we do and want to support our project, you can do so by leaving any amount in our tip jar.
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1 You could, for example, decide to stop reading this right now, and instead move to an essay penned by Space Afrika, or a conversation between Kara-Lis Coverdale and Lyra Pramuk, or explore a visual contribution by Félicia Atkinson.
2 Like this interview with your favourite DJ’s favourite DJ, Call Super.